@nativescript-community/gps

@nativescript-community/gps

Tracks GPS location updates regardless of the app state. Does not depend on Google Play Services.

iOS Demo	Android Demo

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Examples:
• Demos and Development
  • Repo Setup
  • Build
  • Demos
• Contributing
  • Update repo
  • Update readme
  • Update doc
  • Publish
• Questions

Installation

Run the following command from the root of your project:

ns plugin add @nativescript-community/gps

Usage

Here is a simple example. You can find more in the doc here

import { GPS } from '@nativescript-community/gps';

const gps = new GPS();
const location = await gps.getCurrentLocation<LatLonKeys>({
    minimumUpdateTime,
    desiredAccuracy,
    timeout,
    skipPermissionCheck: true
});

Examples:

• Basic
  • A basic sliding drawer.

Demos and Development

Repo Setup

The repo uses submodules. If you did not clone with --recursive then you need to call

git submodule update --init

The package manager used to install and link dependencies must be pnpm or yarn. npm wont work.

To develop and test: if you use yarn then run yarn if you use pnpm then run pnpm i

Interactive Menu:

To start the interactive menu, run npm start (or yarn start or pnpm start). This will list all of the commonly used scripts.

Build

npm run build.all

Demos

npm run demo.[ng|react|svelte|vue].[ios|android]

npm run demo.svelte.ios # Example

Contributing

Update repo

You can update the repo files quite easily

First update the submodules

npm run update

Then commit the changes Then update common files

npm run sync

Then you can run yarn|pnpm, commit changed files if any

Update readme

npm run readme

Update doc

npm run doc

Publish

The publishing is completely handled by lerna (you can add -- --bump major to force a major release) Simply run

npm run publish

Questions

If you have any questions/issues/comments please feel free to create an issue or start a conversation in the NativeScript Community Discord.

Changelog

3.1.10 (2023-01-24)

Bug Fixes

• android: native-api-usage fix (fb7d3d9)